
Life Lessons for Freelancers, with Anna Codrea-Rado
01/13/20 • 61 min
Things we talk about in this episode:
- What journalists and content creators can learn from one another
- The power of engagement of numbers
- The content creator/journalist/freelancer as a brand
- Managing your public versus private self
- The positives of being more 'reachable' in today's media/content realm
- Anna's newsletter, how she developed and grew it, and how it now pays her revenue
- The freelance mindset
- Why having a key message and consistency is essential for freelancers
- Why you haven't missed the boat if you want to set out as a content creator
- Anna's Fair Pay for Freelancers campaign
Links mentioned in this episode:
- The Professional Freelancer - Anna's newsletter
- Anna's Twitter - @annacod
- Anna's Instagram - @annacod
- Anna's website
- #FairPayForFreelancers
- Anna's podcast - Is This Working?
- Dolly Alderton
- Tiffany Philippou
- Substack
- Sian Meades-Williams
- Kat Molesworth
- Letters From a Hopeful Creative podcast
- My Instagram and Twitter
- My Insta Retreat class, enrolling soon!
- Sign up to join my new free community, The Flock
Get full access to Entre Nous at meandorla.substack.com/subscribe
Things we talk about in this episode:
- What journalists and content creators can learn from one another
- The power of engagement of numbers
- The content creator/journalist/freelancer as a brand
- Managing your public versus private self
- The positives of being more 'reachable' in today's media/content realm
- Anna's newsletter, how she developed and grew it, and how it now pays her revenue
- The freelance mindset
- Why having a key message and consistency is essential for freelancers
- Why you haven't missed the boat if you want to set out as a content creator
- Anna's Fair Pay for Freelancers campaign
Links mentioned in this episode:
- The Professional Freelancer - Anna's newsletter
- Anna's Twitter - @annacod
- Anna's Instagram - @annacod
- Anna's website
- #FairPayForFreelancers
- Anna's podcast - Is This Working?
- Dolly Alderton
- Tiffany Philippou
- Substack
- Sian Meades-Williams
- Kat Molesworth
- Letters From a Hopeful Creative podcast
- My Instagram and Twitter
- My Insta Retreat class, enrolling soon!
- Sign up to join my new free community, The Flock
Get full access to Entre Nous at meandorla.substack.com/subscribe
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Things we talk about in this episode:
- Developing good habits around tech, and managing existing bad habits
- Distraction vs traction
- Forethought vs impulse, and how the two interact
- How procrastination and distraction interlink
- Why to do lists are generally unhelpful
- The magic of 'timeboxing'
- The importance of translating your values into time
- Using scheduling for relaxation time as well as work activity, so you don't have to feel guilty
- The truth about multitasking
- Why seeking happiness all the time trips us up, and we need to allow discomfort
- Raising indistractable kids, with healthy habits around technology
Links mentioned in this episode:
- Nir's Instagram and Twitter
- Nir's newest book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
- Nir's website, Nir & Far
- Atomic Habits, Nir's previous book
- Nir's free schedule maker
- The Full Focus Planner
- Brooke Castillo
- Forest App
- My Instagram and Twitter
- My free 15 Minute daily activity prompts for online businesses
- My 15 Minute Magic program
Get full access to Entre Nous at meandorla.substack.com/subscribe
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Frequently Asked Instagram Questions
Things we talk about in this episode:
- The fears that stop us sharing our creative work
- Maria's journey from making art in her house that nobody saw, to sharing and selling full time
- What Maria gained from The Instaretreat
- The power of a nurturing community
- Maria's plans for online teaching
- Instagram's ALT text feature
- Adding captions to Instagram Stories & IGTV videos
- Why the Instagram algorithm sometimes seems to hates you
- Business accounts vs Personal accounts on Instagram
- Ways to visually showcase a product without being repetitive
- Ways to visually showcase expertise when you don't have a portfolio
- Bio-links and link trees for Instagram
- Hashtags on Instagram, and why they don't always help on every post
- Ways I've updated my Instagram class, The Instaretreat
Links mentioned in this episode:
- Maria's website
- Maria's Instagram @mariawiggeart
- My Instagram, Twitter and website
- My Insta Retreat class, enrolling soon
Get full access to Entre Nous at meandorla.substack.com/subscribe
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